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UNDERSTANDING ENERGY
Energy, Entropy and Thermodynamics for Everyman
by R Stephen Berry (The University of Chicago, USA)
This book begins with primary concepts of atomic and molecular structure and of how atoms, molecules and bulk matter store and exchange energy. In the next stage, the macroscopic properties of energy and entropy, and of the constitutive properties of heat capacities are examined. From these, the concept of thermodynamic efficiency is developed. Then the notions of thermodynamic potentials and availability are introduced. With this set of concepts, the analysis of efficient energy use is presented.
Contents:
- The Basic I: Force and Work
- The Basic II: Kinetic and Potential
Energy
- The Equation of State and the Representation of State Changes and Work
- Dilemmas of Energy and the Microstructure of Matter
- Wave Properties of Matter
- Waves, Energy Levels and Densities of States
- Molecules and Chemical Bonds: Energy Storage in Molecules
- Energy and the First Law of Thermodynamics
- Energy Relations in Chemical Process: Combustion
- Microstates, Macrostates and Zermelo's Paradox
- A Microscopic View of Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- The Thermal Definition of Entropy and Macroscopic Statement of the Second Law of Thermodynamics
- The Carnot Engine and Efficiency
- Free Energies and Criteria of Merit
- Availability and Criteria of Merit
Readership: Undergraduates and nonscientists.
"Here is a writer with enthusiasm for thermodynamics ... this is an interesting, useful and a reasonably priced introduction to what we know about energy and I am glad to recommend it to all newcomers to the subject."
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Pub. date: Oct 1991 |
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